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Five ways to find more joy every day

Turn routine into ritual

‘It's helpful to have routines, because then you don’t have to pay attention, which saves you time and energy. But if you turn it into a ritual, then it makes it more meaningful,’ says Cassie Holmes.

‘One example is my weekly coffee date with my daughter, which we started to do on the day that I would drop her at preschool, before heading to my office.

‘I decided to turn that routine into a ritual. So now it has a name: it’s our coffee date. We listen to the same songs on the way to the coffee shop. When we get there, she gets her

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